Marcos Fernando Pinedo was born on July 22,1948, in Havana, Cuba and subsequently raised in the region of Matanzas.
13 Facts About Marcos Pinedo
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Marcos Pinedo participated in the Cuban exodus and emigrated to Miami on April 6,1961, at the age of 12 as part of Operation Peter Pan, after which he became part of the Cuban diaspora residing in the United States.
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Marcos Pinedo's maternal uncle Eric Beraza, a Spanish-born military boot manufacturer, was already living in the United States and was responsible for Pinedo's upbringing in the US.
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In 1972 Marcos Pinedo returned to Miami and the following year he met Josefina Camacho, recently divorced from famed Cuban artist Juan Gonzalez.
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Marcos Pinedo was an early supporter of Baruj Salinas before his rise to international prominence and Marcos Pinedo would consistently collect works from Salinas' various artistic periods since meeting in the 1970s.
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Marcos Pinedo would be an avid collector of other Cuban artists during this formative period when the Latin American art market was beginning to take shape.
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Marcos Pinedo first became a prominent art figure in his own right during this period when Miami had emerged as an international art center with the fame of the "Miami Generation" of artists and the broad re-establishment of earlier artists from the Vieja Guardia generation.
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In 2006 Marcos Pinedo provided most of the works used in Baruj Salinas' career retrospective exhibition held in Florida National University.
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The Marcos Pinedo Collection holds the largest private collection of works by Baruj Salinas, spanning more than 30 works from various periods of Salinas' career, including the artwork Spiraling II that features on the cover of the book BARUJ SALINAS.
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Marcos Pinedo has donated several artworks to the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and Florida National University.
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Marcos Pinedo has donated artwork from the Marcos Pinedo Collection to the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale and Florida National University which have been added to their permanent collections.
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Marcos Pinedo contributed to and helped organize Salinas' 2006 career retrospective.
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Works from the Marcos Pinedo Collection have been featured in artist-specific books, including BARUJ SALINAS, Dirube, Dreamscapes: The Art of Juan Gonzalez, and Rafael Soriano and the Poetics of Light.